Thursday, October 8, 2015

Practice of The Method on my Artifact

            One word I noticed that repeats is tension when talking about my hometown discourse community. There is a lot of tension between the two sides of our divided town. Also the strand of words I see is divided town, and tear people apart. These strands connect logic with each other as the word divided  next to the word town shows a separation of people within the same town as well as when you read tear people apart. A binary I saw is how I talk about us being apart of the same community and together as one, yet we are still divided. It is so hard to be together and divided at the same time which causes for a whole lot of tension.
              However the one word of repetition that trumps them all is the word tension. Everything that is done within the town always creates tension because we don't associate ourself with the other side of town, yet in public settings we might be forced to. There is always an awkward tension with seeing people who live on the other side town that I used to be really close with and for some reason theres a wall put up between us.
             An anomaly that I see being prevalent is the fact that these enemies I describe, are presented as people who live in the same town as me. This automatically seems not to fit because there is no way that an entire group of people within the same town as me are all enemies and all have this tension. It truly is a concept straight out of West Side Story.

1 comment:

  1. I found this post really interesting and surprising because of all the tension just within your own town. Also I like the way you explained the tension in your community. Good job

    Natalia Grosfeld

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